Collectors are always on the lookout for game-used World Series bats. But before they can be acquired–they’ve got to be made.

Louisville Slugger also cranks out souvenir type bats. The company wasted no time putting its employees to work on the 2009 World Series bats. The Philadelphia Phillies are in and bats are already being made.

Hillerich and Bradsby has made bats used in World Series games since the first one back in 1903.

Watch the story from WCPO-TV in Cincinnati: